Theatrum botanicum : the theater of plants. Or, an herball of a large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants that are in other authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare, and strange plants from all the parts of the world, with sundry gummes, and other physicall materials, than hath beene hitherto published by any before; and a most large demonstration of their natures and vertues : shewing withall the many errors, differences, and oversights of sundry authors...distributed into sundry classes or tribes,...
John Parkinson's 1640 Theatrum botanicum is a large English herbal printed by Thomas Cotes, cataloguing physic plants and their medicinal virtues for physicians, apothecaries and botanically minded readers. Its woodcut plant portraits show whole specimens with roots, leaves and flowering stems drawn in fine parallel hatching on plain, unshaded paper, a clear model for botanical line work and scientific illustration.
